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    Default Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    Would you tell me what's wrong with the use of Comprehensive Diffculties? Thank you.

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    Default Re: Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    Quote Originally Posted by Deepurple View Post
    Would you tell me what's wrong with the use of Comprehensive Diffculties? Thank you.
    'Comprehensive' means including/covering virtually everything.'Comprehensive difficulties' is therefore not a very likely collocation. In another thread, in which your 'comprehensive' was changed to 'comprhension', the reason was that your difficulties were in understanding - in comprehension.
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    Default Re: Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    Thank you, 5jj. I made the mistake because I thought comprehensive was the adjective of comprehension.
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    Default Re: Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    The adjective from "comprehension" is "comprehensible".
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    Default Re: Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    Quote Originally Posted by emsr2d2 View Post
    The adjective from "comprehension" is "comprehensible".
    Yes, but this adjective still doesn't work here. "Comprehensible difficulties" are difficulties that can be understood, and not comprehension difficulties.
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    Default Re: Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    Quote Originally Posted by birdeen's call View Post
    Yes, but this adjective still doesn't work here. "Comprehensible difficulties" are difficulties that can be understood, and not comprehension difficulties.

    No, I wasn't trying to suggest that "comprehensible" should have been used, but the OP thought that the adjective from "comprehension" was "comprehensive". I was simply correcting that assumption.

    The title should indeed be "Comprehension Difficulties".
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    Default Re: Comprehensive Difficulties and Comprehension Difficulties

    I see. The two words have different meaning.
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